Gmail Now Automatically Translates Messages As Well As Could Be Expected
Gmail Labs has done it once again. A new feature introduced today allows users to automatically translate emails into English and any other supported language. Sort of.
As with any non-human inter-linguistic interpretations, the messages suffer in translation. But thanks to this new feature, you'll be able to get the gist of the Cyrillic text in your spam folder with just the click of a text link.
As today's post on the Gmail Blog claims, "If all parties are using Gmail, you can have entire conversations in multiple languages with each participant reading the messages in whatever language is most comfortable for them. It's not quite the universal translators we're so fond of from science fiction, but thanks to Google Translate, it's an exciting step in the right direction."
A small step, perhaps, if the screenshots below are to serve as evidence:
All in all, not the Labs' most impressive offering to date; nevertheless, it'll save us all a cut-and-paste to a free online translator.
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Very useful.
Now Mailplane is a total killer app.
Not the most awesome feature but nonetheless useful.
Great.. It is very useful to us.
Thanks
Business negotiations and poetry are not the right places to start. The place to start is twitter -- maybe friendfeed. If it was developing the vocabulary as it went along very brief messages would be more easily translated. And 'everyone' knows that twitter is the 'wave of the future.'
That’s a good thing to do, yet the main problem I and my friends have with Gmail is that we can’t use it much at all, the reason being there’s no facility to create folders is there or have I missed something?
So it’s pretty useless, as having everything on one page would take you near enough forever to locate it in a busy e-mail box.
Signed Carl Barron Chairman of agpcuk
Hi dude whats up?
看起来挺有用。